By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Health officials in England say the number of confirmed mumps cases recorded last year is the most seen in the country in a decade. Provisional data from Public Health...

Do you like science and medicine? Do you like history? On today’s show, you’ll get a great dose of both. I talk to the author of the very informative book, Between Hope and Fear: A History...

New national case counts have been released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and we see it continue to rise by the dozens. The biggest outbreaks in the United States, in New York...

I just finished a must read book–a very important book in this day and age. It’s called Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel’s Autism: My Journey as a Vaccine Scientist, Pediatrician, and...

An anti-vaccine sentiment is alive and well in the US and abroad. This is not a new phenomena, but it has seen a resurgence in the past 20 odd years.  What are the arguments, who are the cast of characters...

For the past two weeks, we have watched the Minnesota measles outbreak grow into 32 confirmed cases as of Friday. The bulk of the cases have been reported in Somali children in the state with all of them...

The controversial 2016 documentary, Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe,  directed by discredited former physician and anti-vaccine activist Andrew Wakefield, has been pulled from the line-up at the...

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have given away and pledged billions of dollars for a wide range of disease conditions ranging from malaria to neglected tropical diseases to vaccines. And this doesn’t...

The British medical journal, The Lancet, has retracted a controversial study from 1998 in which the author suggested a link between autism and the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine. The lead researcher,...

The British medical journal, The Lancet, has retracted a controversial study from 1998 in which the author suggested a link between autism and the measles,mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine. The lead researcher,...